Epidemiology and antibiotic susceptibility of bacteria causing skin and soft tissue infections in the USA and Europe: a guide to appropriate antimicrobial therapy

Vancomycin resistant coagulase-negative Staphylococcal isolates from HIV positive patients in the Limpopo Province, South Africa

“…Strains of MRCNS are often linked to multi-resistance, like their MRSA counterparts, thus presenting an ongoing therapeutic challenge (Mongkolrattanothai et al, 2004;Noto et al, 2006). Jones et al (2003) in a study testing the susceptibility of only skin and soft tissue isolates in 283 US hospitals and 301 hospitals in Europe for 9 antimicrobials, including amoxicillin-clavulanate, cefotaxine, cetriaxone, ciprofloxacin, erythromycin, gentamicin, levofloxacin, trimethoprim/sulfamethaoxazole and vancomycin revealed that almost all MSCNS isolates were susceptible to amoxicillin-clavulanate. In this study, all the isolates were resistant to amoxicillin-clavulanate, 33% of isolates were resistant to gentamicin, and 72% showed resistance to trimethoprime/sulfamathoxazole, while all were resistant to vancomycin.…”

“…Also, the prevalence of resistance to chloramphenicol and trimethoprim was 72%, respectively. The prevalence of resistance to ciprofloxacin among MRCNS across Europe and US has been shown to be between 65 and 67% and about 47%, respectively (Jones et al, 2003). Cuevas et al (2004) studied resistance in clinical isolates of CNS in Spain for five periods from 1986 to 2000 (Cuevas et al, 2004).…”

Reality bites of spider bites: a case report and review of the local epidemiology

“…7,8,10 Spontaneous skin and soft tissue infection frequently occurs due to infection with S. aureus and Streptococcus spp., and in particular S. pyogenes. 5 Some authors have suggested the possibility that spiders inoculate microbes during their bite, resulting in subsequent positive cultures. 1 However, an investigation of 100 common house spider specimens yielded very few positive cultures, and no cases cultured S. aureus.…”

“…Therefore, penicillin therapy is considered to be adequate. 5 However, as the testing was performed in an academic laboratory, surveillance sensitivities were performed.…”

Complicated course of facial cellulitis caused by Staphylococcus aureus in a 13-year-old boy with neutropenia — an adverse event analysis

“…Jones et al [18] found that MSSA strains had 100% susceptibility to amoxicillin with clavulanate and cefotaxime, almost 100% to ceftriaxone, and a very high susceptibility to trimethoprim/sulphamethoxazole (>94.5%) and levofloxacin (>91.4%). MRSA was detected in 12.4-44.4% of S. aureus in SSTI cases.…”